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Official language:
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- Easter and Christmas holidays are the most important national
celebrations.
- A traditional Chilean wedding custom calls for the couple
getting married to exchange wedding rings when the engagement
proposal takes place. Until the wedding vows at their marriage
ceremony, the couple will wear their wedding bands on their
right hands. Once they have become man and wife the rings
are switched to their left hands.
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- Chileans eat four meals a day, beginning with a light
breakfast of toast and tea or coffee.
- Lunch is the main meal of the day and is generally served
between 1 and 3pm; soups and stews are common.
- Between the hours of 5 and 7pm, it is common to take onces
(afternoon tea), which consist of a sandwich and some kind
of dessert with tea or coffee.
- Dinner is rarely earlier than 9pm and can often run as
late as midnight.
- The Chilean equivalent to an U.S. burger is the Lomo a
la pobre (poor man’s steak), a combination of steak
topped with two fried eggs and smothered with french fries.
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- Chile was the last country in the Americas to be occupied
by the Spaniards.
- Chile has spawned the Nobel Prize-winning poets Gabriela
Mistral and Pablo Neruda.
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